Glove-fastener.



No.'635,6'55. Patented Oct. 24, i899.

' G. T. CHAPMAN.

GLOVE FASTENEB.

(Applibation filed May 18, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,655, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed May 18, 1898. Serial No. 681,008. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE T. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe and Glove Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to fasteners for shoes, gloves, and other articles of wearing-apparel or for other use; and it consists of a pawlholding toothed rack for attachment to one of the flaps and a pawl-stud attached to the other flap in a way to make a simple and reliable adjustable fastener, as hereinafter described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the Wrist port-ion of a glove provided with my improved fastener. Fig. 2 is a section of the flap having the pawl-stud on line 2 2. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the pawl-stud on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the pawlholding rack. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of said rack. Fig. 6 is a plan of the rack and section of the pawl-stud in the relations they occupy when the two parts of the shoe, glove, or other article are fastened together; and Fig. 7 is a section of the two flaps and side elevation of the fastener as when the flaps are fastened together.

In this example I use for the illustration of my invention the wrist portion a of a glove the flaps of which, I) and c, are to be fastened together; but it is obvious that the fastener is alike applicable to the flaps of any other article to be fastened together. cl represents the pawl-holding toothed rack. It may be constructed in various ways; but in this instance I represent it as a margin of a baseplate 6, folded upward and backward over a portion of the base of the plate, with a free space f, forming a channel or groove between them, and the opposite margin. of the baseplate is folded in like'manner, withits edge 9 opposing the edge d, and with a like free space f between it and another portion of the baseplate. Each end of the base-plate has a spur h for securing the rack to the flap 0. The pawl-holding rack may be constructed in any other approved way, and it may be riveted or otherwise secured to the flap c. The pawl is represented at t'. It has a disk-head j, adapted to move freely in the spaces f of the pawlholding rack under the overfolded margins,

while the portion 11 of the pawl-stud adjacent to the head and formed as a pawl-bit m goes between the toothed edge cl of one of said overfolded margins of the rack and the opposing edge g of the other overfolded margin. The pawl-stud is inserted through. the flap 1) and at a point above said disk-head is fixedly secured to the flap by collars 7a or in any other approved way in suitable relation for engaging with the rack, as represented in Fig. 1. A suitable distance above the flap 1) the pawl has a knob Z to be grasped between the thumb and fingers for manipulating the fastening.

To fasten the flaps together, the pawl-stud is forced into the rack by suitable stress on the knob, with the disk-head in the channels f and the bit 1% of the pawl in touch with the toothed edge of the rack, as indicated in Fig. 6. l/Vhen the flap is drawn taut, the stress of the flaps and the eccentric relation of the bit of the pawl-stud to the axis of the stud and the disk-head j under the overfolded margins of the base-plate cause engagement of the pawl with the rack.

To disengage the pawl for unfastening the flaps, the stud is turned by means of the knob, so as to detach the bit on from the rack, and the stress of the flaps pulls the pawl and the rack apart. The pliability' of the flap permits such turning of the stud without material resistance, and there is sufficient resil ience to return the stud to its normal posi* tion, so as to engage the rack when inserted again.

I clain1 The combination with the flaps to be overlapped and fastened together one under the other, of the pawl-stud attached to the overlying flap with one end extending through said flap and having a projecting disk-head, and a radially-disposed pawl-bit intermediate of said head and the attached flap, and the toothed rack attached to the underlying flap, said rack having the channel and overfolded margins adapted for reception of the diskhead into the rack to connect the flaps and for escape of the same from the rack to disconnect them.

Signed by me at New York, N. 36., this 12th day of May, 1898.

GEORGE T. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

O. SEDewIo M. WITZELL. 

